Oil pipeline carrying fracked shale oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline's route takes it under the Missouri River just upriver from the water intake for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, raising concerns about water quality in the event of a leak. The pipeline's construction sparked enormous protests at Standing Rock, which were sometimes violently suppressed. Because of its proximity to and disproportionate effect on native communities, the project has been called a case of environmental racism.
Suggested resources:
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance by 
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